Urban I. von Boyneburg

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Urban I. von Boyneburg (* 1553 ; † 1639 in Ziegenhain ) was a statesman from Hessen-Kassel . He served three Landgrave as Lord Chamberlain , Privy Councilor , Envoy, bailiff , War Commissioner , Governor , War colonel, governor and garrison commander.

family

He came from the noble family of those von Boyneburg zu Lengsfeld and was a grandson of the Hessian guardianship regent, court judge and governor on the Lahn Ludwig I. von Boyneburg zu Lengsfeld (1466-1537). His father was Ludwig's son from his second marriage to Elisabeth von Meysenbug , Ludwig III. of Boyneburg-Lengsfeld († 1568), landgräflicher bailiff in Homberg at the Ohm and Borken , who in 1537 as a two-year-old with the Altenburg at Felsberg in today Schwalm-Eder-Kreis invested , but never lived there was himself. As Urban's older brother Heidenreich (also Heiderich, † 1612), who had become after the death of the father of the owner of Altenburg, in 1594 because of a homicide from Hesse exiled was, he sold the Altenburg to his brother Urban. He never lived in the castle himself either; first his widow Anna Elisabeth, b. von Beuren , whom he married in 1586 or 1587, moved into her widow's residence there in 1639. Both son, Johann Friedrich († 1647), married to Elisabeth von Geyso , did not live on the Altenburg either, but in 1640 had the heavily damaged eastern residential wing, which was built in 1540, demolished and replaced with a two-story, mostly wooden building.

career

Urban, who had been under Landgrave Wilhelm IV. Court Marshal since 1585 , was secretly advised by Landgrave Moritz and sent several times to important embassies. Because of his loyal service, Moritz already prescribed him a man's loan of 2000 guilders in 1597 . In 1601 he enfeoffed his court marshal Urban with a Vorwerk zu Maden and the forest mill at Niedervorschütz , along with their hereditary interest.

In 1605 the Landgrave sent him to the Henneberger Hof to re-make the Werra navigable above Wanfried , and in January 1608 he traveled to Stuttgart for the funeral of Duke Friedrich I of Württemberg , a cousin of the Landgrave .

In 1608 he became, as the successor of Hermann von Wersabe, who had opposed the introduction of the Calvinist teaching in Hessen-Kassel, Oberamtmann in the rule of Schmalkalden, which fell to the Landgrave in 1583 . In 1622, during the Thirty Years' War , he was one of Moritz's envoys to Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony in order to mediate with the emperor. When troops of the Catholic League under Tilly marched into Hessen-Kassel in 1623 , Boyneburg also became the landgrave's war commissioner . In 1626, the costly court holding of Landgrave Moritz led to the pledge of the Schmalkalden rule to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt . The Darmstadt pledge commission replaced Boyneburg as senior bailiff with his predecessor Hermann von Wersabe, one of the leaders of the knightly opposition to Landgrave Moritz in Niederhessen. Boyneburg was then appointed by the Landgrave to the Landvogt on the Werra and the war colonel of this area. During the Hessian occupation of the Fulda monastery from 1631 to 1634, when Landgrave Wilhelm V of Hessen-Kassel ruled over the imperial monastery as Prince of Buchen , Boyneburg was governor of the landgrave there. In 1632 he became the owner of the Michelsrombach office and court , which had been pledged to Johann Eustachius von Schlitz, gen. Von Görtz, from 1592 and were redeemed by Urban von Boyneburg after the 40-year pledge period had expired in 1632. From 1636 Boyneburg was finally in command of the fortress Ziegenhain , where he died in 1639 at the age of 86.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ludwig von Boyneburg 1568, Homberg (Ohm). Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ On August 20, 1592, he stabbed his friend, Hofjunker Friedrich von Baumbach , in a dispute , served two years in prison and was then expelled from the country. He died in 1612 as a Holstein secret councilor and court marshal on his Osterrade estate near Rendsburg .
  3. ↑ It was plundered by Tilly's troops in the Thirty Years War in 1631 and heavily devastated.
  4. ↑ 1586/87 an edition note “Wedding present for Urban von Boyneburg” appears in the invoices of the Stuttgart Landeschreiberei. ( www2.landesarchiv-bw.de )
  5. ^ HStAM Fonds 17 d No von Boyneburg 128
  6. ↑ HStAM Fund Certificate 109 No 235
  7. ^ HStAM Fonds 17 d No von Boyneburg 561
  8. ↑ Christoph von Rommel: History of Hesse: Modern History of Hesse , Fourth Part, Third Section, Seventh Volume, Perthes, Kassel, 1839, p. 93
  9. ↑ Christoph von Rommel: Modern History of Hessen , Third Volume, Perthes, Kassel, 1839, p. 656
  10. ↑ After the redemption of the pledge had been agreed in 1655, Michelsrombach finally came back into the possession of the Fulda bishopric in 1669 from Urban's descendants.
  11. ↑ Christoph von Rommel: Modern History of Hessen , Fifth Book, Main Part II. Perthes, Kassel, 1837, p. 452.
  12. ↑ Georg Landau: The Hessian knight castles and their owners. Second volume, Luckhard, Kassel, 1833, pp. 196–197
personal data
SURNAME Boyneburg, Urban I. von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boineburg, Urban of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessen-Kassel statesman
DATE OF BIRTH 1553
DATE OF DEATH 1639
Place of death Goat grove